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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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Choose Conscience Honor Lose Person Rather
I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Great Him Injury Lie Myself So Tell Try Whom
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
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Absolute Being Divine Enjoy How Perfection Rightfully Virtual
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
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Contagious Fear Passion So That
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Arm Courage Leg Soul Stability Valor
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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Address Certain Port Serve Voyage Wind
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
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Already Fear Man Suffer
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
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Betray Lie Men Muscle Public Require World
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Create Entire Higher Likeness Lower World
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Believe Firmly Know Least Nothing
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
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Cured Easily Good Impossible Poverty Soil
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
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Do Good Gratification Make Ourselves Rejoice Sort
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Finest Have Most Soul Suppleness Variety
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book.
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Anything Book Education Good Hand True
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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Company Educate Incorrectly Peasant Prefer Reason Sufficient
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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Entire Family Government Manage Much Private State Vexation

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